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Last week, I was hanging out with a friend who had a 20D with quite a menagerie of lenses, ranging from the 10-22mm super wide zoom through the 300mm f/2.8 with all the bells and whistles.


One of my colleagues has that 300mm f/2.8 lens on a 20D too. It's a beautiful piece of glass.

I nearly bit the bullet on a 350D recently, but money didn't quite flow right at the time, and since then I've been reconsidering. I realised that I really have to chose the glass first, and if I want to remain married then I'm going to be stuck with the low-end lenses, most of which rate pretty poorly (www.photozone.de). Sure, if I could afford L glass then Canon just can't be beaten, but quite frankly, I can't

I'm tempted instead by the Minolta Maxxum 5D that's due next month. The in-body IS combined with the large range of available mid-quality minolta glass makes quite an argument. The question is whether it is worth trading off 2MP and a bit of high ISO sensor noise. I think I'd also like the controls on the 5D better - it has more immediately available controls. I guess I'm going to have to wait for dpreview to get their hands on it.
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